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Consult with EMR system vendors about critical specifications, available options, and related costs.
2. Consult with physicians in the practice about their specific wants and needs in an EMR system.
3. Define a decision-making protocol for choosing an EMR system and vendor.
4. Establish and apply criteria for evaluating system options available from vendors.
5. Invite proposals/presentations from vendors.
6. Analyze and discuss options.
7. Select system and vendor.
8. Negotiate with vendor for purchase of system and related services.

Action Plan Metrics:

Signed system and services purchase agreement within six months. Initial system cost not to exceed $650,000; annual service contract cost not to exceed $90,000. Physician involvement in decision-making process—75 percent.

Specific Implementation Activities:

1. Consult vendors (weeks 1–4) Identify relevant vendors (IT staff) Request detailed information on products (IT staff)
2. Consult physicians (weeks 5–7) Initial meeting with physicians (IT manager, business manager, physician leaders, all physicians) Provide list of potential system capabilities (IT staff) Conduct written survey of physician wants and needs (IT and business staff) Second meeting with physicians to discuss system options and capabilities (IT manager, all physicians)
3. Define decision-making protocol (weeks 6–7) Draft decision-making protocol (IT and business staff) Discuss with physician and business leadership (IT and business staff, business and physician leaders) Finalize and approve decision-making protocol (business and physician leaders)
4. Establish criteria (weeks 8–9) Using information from vendor and physician meetings, draft criteria (IT and business staff) Discuss with physician and business leadership (IT and business managers, physician leaders) Finalize and approve decision-making protocol (business and physician leaders)
5. Vendor proposals/presentations (weeks 10–14) Invite vendors to make proposals/presentations (IT staff) Schedule presentations at the practice offices (IT staff, physician leaders) Debrief and critique the presentations (IT and business staff, all physicians)
6. Analyze options (weeks 15–16) Prepare summary sheet on the systems and vendors (IT and business staff) Narrow the number of systems and vendors to a few (IT and business managers)
7. Select system and vendor (week 17) Final meeting with physician and business leaders to make final decision (IT and business managers, physician leaders)
8. Vendor negotiations (weeks 18–22) Initiate negotiations with selected vendor for chosen system (IT and business managers, legal counsel) Complete negotiations and sign purchase and service agreements (IT and business managers, legal counsel)

Assignment 2: Strategic Action Plans

There are some elements missing from the action plan in Table 9.1 in your text book. If the EMR system is to be integrated with similar systems at local hospitals, and the physicians fully utilize its data-sharing capabilities, representatives from the hospitals must be drawn into this implementation process.

(Moseley III, George B. . Managing Health Care Business Strategy. Jones & Bartlett Publishers, May 2008. p. 251).

Write a three page report answering the following questions:

What elements (at least two) are missing from the action plan in Table 9.1 for the EMR system? Justify your choice.
Describe the activities that should be implemented to address the missing elements.
Describe where these activities would be added to the list (relative to the other activities already listed).
Specify exactly which people from the hospitals and practice will participate in these new activities and justify your choice

Write a 1,300- to 1,800-word paper addressing the following:

Describe the Framingham Heart Study. How does this help us to understand the risk factors involved in cardiovascular disease?

Describe the Type A and Type B personalities, as described by Friedman and Rosenman. How has research on personality and heart disease been expanded and refined in the past 20 years?

Describe the strategies that can help minimize the effects of personality and behavior on cardiovascular disease.

Describe the role of hostility and how it affects the development of cardiovascular disease.

Seligman has done extensive research on the concept of optimism and positivity as it relates to heart disease. Research and discuss some of his major findings. If optimism is an important factor, how can it be learned?

Describe the metabolic syndrome. How do these factors lead to increased risk for developing cardiovascular disease and diabetes?

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines, including at leas

Suppose the number of equipment sales and service contracts that a store sold during the last six (6) months for treadmills and exercise bikes was as follows:

Treadmill Exercise Bike

Total sold 185 123

Service contracts 67 55

The store can only sell a service contract on a new piece of equipment. Of the 185 treadmills sold, 67 included a service contract and 118 did not.

Complete the following questions in the space provided below:

Construct a 95 percent confidence interval for the difference between the proportions of service contracts sold on treadmills versus exercise bikes.
Is there a major difference between the two pieces of equipment? Why or why not?

Choose a current policy issue. Discuss this issue in terms of the stages of the policy-making process. Cite examples

2) What can an average American citizen do to influence the federal policy making process? Please cite examples

magine that you are forming a small professional group to discuss how the statistics and research of a human services organization can be improved. You would also need to present the group with some tips and tools on positive communication techniques to enhance the success of the group’s communication.

In this assignment, you will create a code of conduct or a set of guidelines regarding how a group should interact during meetings. You will also analyze the issues that might arise when people meet in a group and explain how these issues can be addressed by making preventative efforts.

Tasks:

Create a 2- to 3-page paper by responding to the following points:

Describe the way in which you will set up a small professional group. Create a code of conduct or a set of guidelines regarding how the group should interact in both face-to-face communication and technology-mediated meetings.
Provide at least 6–10 positive communication techniques that would enable the group to address communication issues, if they occur, during the meeting.
Review the group development stages (forming, storming, norming, and performing) and analyze the stage in which your group currently is; describe the specific technique to be used based on the stage in which the group is.

Note: Your paper should rely upon at least 2 sources from additional professional literature; the sources must be cited in APA format. The literature may include relevant textbooks, peer-reviewed journal articles, and websites created by professional organizations, agencies, or institutions (.edu, .org, or .gov)

Your supervisor has just met with a potential new client. You and two of your coworkers will be working directly with this client in helping to create and execute contracts. To refresh your skills and memory on contracts, your supervisor has asked you to write a memo to provide to your coworkers and supervisor discussing the following information:

Identify, define, and discuss the 6 elements of a contract, providing examples to help further the understanding of each element.
Conduct research online or in the library to find a case involving a contract dispute regarding one or more of the elements of a contract, and provide the following:
Citation
Summary
Analysis of the case, including information on the specific elements involved in the dispute, as well as the outcome of the case
Discuss your opinion on the outcome of the case. Do you agree with the court’s decision?
Additionally, to help prepare for the Phase 4 and 5 IP (review the assignment for details), briefly (200 words) define a contractual concern related to the business you would like to star

We have learned that adolescence is a time of transition between childhood and adulthood. A critical milestone of this stage is the ability to successfully achieve a sense of identity. Around the world, there are different rites of passage to mark the transition to adulthood. In the United States, this might include obtaining a driver’s license, landing one’s first job, senior prom, or high school graduation. In this assignment, we will explore the role that family and society play in the development of the individual’s sense of self.

Create two documents for parents of minority teens 1) A 9–12-slide PowerPoint presentation (complete with speaker’s notes) and 2) an accompanying 1–2-page handout/flier in Word document or PDF format. Be sure that both illustrate the following:

Describe common rites of passage from two cultures around the world and compare them to a common American rite of passage. Possible resources might include National Geographic and the Argosy University Online Library.
Compare and contrast these rites to common US rites of passage. Do they coincide with the physical, cognitive, or socioemotional changes taking place at this age? Describe which specific changes (physical, cognitive, or socioemotional) they coincide with. Does this explain their importance in a particular culture?
How might such a social ritual, such as a rite of passage, influence the identity formation process of adolescents?
In light of Erikson and Marcia’s theories, discuss how the process of identity development is affected when the adolescent belongs to a minority group (racial, ethnic, sexual, or religious). Be sure to explain these theories and how they apply to identity development.
Summarize research from at least two peer-reviewed* studies on the effect of minority status on identity development, ensuring you describe the main findings of the study as well as the research methods used to study the topic.
Apply the information you gathered from the online notes, textbook, and research articles to provide at least three practical recommendations for what the family, school, and community can do to ease the process for adolescents.

*Peer-reviewed means an article from a reputable journal, which can be found in the Argosy University Online Library. Peer reviewed indicates that other professionals in the field have reviewed and deemed it worthy of publication, in contrast to much if what we find online: someone posting something he or she wants to, without someone else verifying that the research methods were rigorous enough and the study is valid. Use your textbook and course lectures as your primary resources, as well as articles from the Argosy University Online Library. If you must supplement from a website, do NOT use .coms. Instead, look for .org, .gov, and sometimes .edu for more reputable sources. Never use Wikipedia or about.com.

This assignment is worth 300 points and will be evaluated according to the rubric. Study the rubric carefully before you start work and refer to it periodically to complete this assignment

Write a three-four page, five paragraph essay discussing three important things you have learned this term. Use APA formatting; no title sheet or abstract is required.

Text book: Government and Not For Profit Accounting: Concepts and Practices; 6th Edition by Granof, Michae

this is due saturday by 6pm and no borrowed material from online so means no plagiarism, must read all intructions on the attachments i attached.

Turnitin reports will be monitored and there is NO borrowed material permitted on this assignment. If you get anything besides a zero (0%) on your TII, be sure to open the originality report and make sure it is just the template that is “hitting” on the TII report.

Examples of KSA-based question for customer service position: (these questions would qualify for full-points consideration)

How do you handle an irate customer?

The phone is ringing, a co-worker is standing at your desk needing assistance, and you are in the middle of putting notes in the system from your last call while they are fresh in your mind. What do you first? Why?

Example of questions that would NOT receive points and why (noted in parentheses):

What are your strengths/weaknesses? (generic question)

Where do you want to be in your career in 5 years? (generic question)

What do you bring to this job? (generic question)

What do you know about our company? (generic question)

When are you available to start work? (generic question and more of an application form question)

Are you eligible to work in this country? (application form question)

What are your salary requirements? (generic question and more of an application form question)

Another example and how to make it more KSA-based:

How do you handle stress? (generic question, meaning it could be asked in virtually ANY interview)

Here is how we could make this question KSA-based:

There are tight deadlines associated with this position. How do you prioritize your work, meet those deadlines, and also keep your stress in check?

Review the page requirements and formatting instructions for this assignment closely. Graphically depicted solutions, as well as the standardized formatting requirements, do NOT count toward the overall page length.

Imagine you are an Information Systems Security Officer for a medium-sized financial services firm that has operations in four (4) states (Virginia, Florida, Arizona, and California). Due to the highly sensitive data created, stored, and transported by your organization, the CIO is concerned with implementing proper security controls for the LAN-to-WAN domain. Specifically, the CIO is concerned with the following areas:

Protecting data privacy across the WAN
Filtering undesirable network traffic from the Internet
Filtering the traffic to the Internet that does not adhere to the organizational acceptable use policy (AUP) for the Web
Having a zone that allows access for anonymous users but aggressively controls information exchange with internal resources

Having an area designed to trap attackers in order to monitor attacker activities
Allowing a means to monitor network traffic in real time as a means to identify and block unusual activity
Hiding internal IP addresses
Allowing operating system and application patch management

The CIO has tasked you with proposing a series of hardware and software controls designed to provide security for the LAN-to-WAN domain. The CIO anticipates receiving both a written report and diagram(s) to support your recommendations.

Write a three to five (3-5) page paper in which you:

Use MS Visio or an open source equivalent to graphically depict a solution for the provided scenario that will:
filter undesirable network traffic from the Internet
filter Web traffic to the Internet that does not adhere to the organizational AUP for the Web
allow for a zone for anonymous users but aggressively controls information exchange with internal resources
allow for an area designed to trap attackers in order to monitor attacker activities
offer a means to monitor network traffic in real time as a means to identify and block unusual activity
hide internal IP addresses
Identify the fundamentals of public key infrastructure (PKI).
Describe the manner in which your solution will protect the privacy of data transmitted across the WAN.
Analyze the requirements necessary to allow for proper operating system and application patch management and describe a solution that would be effective.
Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
Include charts or diagrams created in Visio or an equivalent such as Dia or OpenOffice. The completed diagrams / charts must be imported into the Word document before the paper is submitted.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

Analyze information security systems compliance requirements within the Workstation and LAN Domains.
Use technology and information resources to research issues in security strategy and policy formation.
Write clearly and concisely about topics related to information technology audit and control using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.